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Name: Evelyn Glennie
Field:
Musician
Productions:
An Audience With Evelyn Glennie
Biography: www.evelyn.co.uk
Dame Evelyn Glennie
Awarded Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2007 Evelyn Glennie is the first person in musical history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist. As one of the most eclectic and innovative musicians on the scene today she is constantly redefining the goals and expectations of percussion by creating performances of such vitality they almost constitute a new type of performance.
Since graduating with an Honours degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London at the age of 19 Evelyn gives more than 100 performances a year worldwide, performing with the greatest conductors, orchestras, and artists. Her diversity of collaborations include visual mixing with live music and improvisation with DJ Yoda and as a budding ‘Beat Boxer’ with Shlomo. She is also creating new challenges through her collaboration with Marc Brew Productions Ltd for Dance collaboration planned for the 2012 Cultural Olympics as well as collaborations including Nana Vasconcelos, Kodo, Bela Fleck, Bjork, Bobby McFerrin, Sting, Emmanuel Ax, Kings Singers, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Fred Frith and the Taipei Chinese Orchestra.
As the leading commissioner of around 170 new works for solo percussion from many of the world's most eminent composers, the repertoire continues to expand. As a double Grammy award winner and BAFTA nominee Evelyn is in demand as a composer in her own right and records high quality music for film, television and music libraries. The film Touch the Sound and her enlightening TED speech remain key visual & audio testimonies to her world of sound creation knowledge and understanding. Most recent film and drama scores include Golf in the Kingdom, The Trench and Trial and Retribution.
Experience based on presenting two series of her own television programmes (Soundbites) for the BBC and several radio programmes to regular appearances on television across the world, including The David Letterman Show, Sesame Street, The South Bank Show, presenting and performing on Songs of Praise, Commonwealth Games Festival Concert, This is Your Life, 60 minutes, PBS Profile demonstrates an incredible journey by an amazing woman who continues to develop and evolve.
Solo recordings now exceed 28 CD’s including the Grammy award winning Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Bartok and her collaboration with Bela Fleck. Shadow Behind the Iron Sun continues to be a best selling album demonstrating the brilliant improvisational skills of this ground breaking performer. As a successful author she wrote her autobiography at 24 and is now reaching out to audiences as a columnist in Tom Tom Magazine for female drummers and remains a keen lobbyist for change and improvement in the world of music education.
As an eminent activist in the world of motivational speaking her message is delivered loud and clear on ‘How to Listen’ to a variety of diverse corporate companies, key educational institutes as well as public and private events.
As a keen collector of percussion instruments Evelyn’s own private collection is now estimated at over 1800 instruments. She continues to expand and explore natural materials such as stones & rocks to create new developments in the world of sound. Evelyn has collaborated with Geology departments at Leeds University on the development of two 21st Century Lithophones. One of these instruments is now housed in the Linton room at the former home of John Ruskin at Brantwood, Coniston, UK and Portland Stone Quarry Trust.
Based on her childhood fascination with trinkets comes her love of jewellery. Designing in collaboration with ORTAK based in her ancestral home of the Orkney Isles she brings her own organic uniqueness to the collaboration using her percussive experience to create ranges of jewellery.
With over 86 international awards to date Evelyn continues to feed the next generation through advice and guidance as a Consultant and offers prestigious and much sought after Master classes and Lecture demonstrations to all types of instrumentalists. She also gives presentations to the sports world on visualisation techniques. Evelyn is based in the beautiful countryside of Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
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Updated April 2011
Now, for the first time, Evelyn will talk to theatre audiences about her career and influences and will illustrate her talk by playing a small selection of her percussion instruments. As usual, there will be an opportunity to ask questions during the event.
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